Martin Scorsese’s 81 Greatest Movie Characters, Ranked
In celebration of the upcoming release of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (and his 81st birthday next month!), we’re counting down the greatest figures of the legendary director’s careerThe Ringer Staff (The Ringer)
When I feel burnt out from painting realistically, I draw mushroom bears.
#DigitalArt #DisabledArtist #Art
30 Years Ago: The STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences-2 Mission
On Oct. 18, 1993, space shuttle Columbia lifted off in support of the STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences 2 (SLS-2) mission to conduct cutting edge research onJohn Uri (NASA)
Elon Musk doesn't really want your dollar. He wants something much, much more valuable: for you to pay for something—hell, anything at all—on X.
My latest for Slate: slate.com/technology/2023/10/e…
I Think I Know the Real Reason Elon Musk Wants to Charge X Users $1 a Year
The social network wants users to pay to post, but it’s after way more than your dollar.Scott Nover (Slate)
Public Invited to International Observe the Moon Night Oct. 21
NASA is hosting an International Observe the Moon Night event on October 21 that is free to the public at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations
The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."Samantha Cole (404 Media)
“Necesitamos una política de género dispuesta a comprometerse con las tecnologías y a entenderlas para afrontarlas mejor, y un feminismo que crea que una cultura tecnológica mejor es necesaria y posible.”
Recomendamos esta entrevista a Helen Hester 😍👇
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Roll20 Bundle
Adventure online in Roll20, the world's most popular virtual tabletop! Get Compendiums for Pathfinder 2E, Dune, and more games, plus more Roll20 resources. Pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
The Moon Casts a Shadow
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured the lunar shadow during the Oct. 14 annular solarMonika Luabeya (NASA)
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@rooftopaxx we are going to be thinking about shutting down all #OMN instances as the is currently no money to pay the hosting, and outreaching is not working without a LOT of help.
The #DIY coding project is not actually working anyway, the has been no movement beyond chatter on the tech side of #OMN for the last few years, and the #fedivers stuff was set up to seed this dev.
Any ideas for a good path, happy to pass the instances on to a new responsible crew.
don't really see any great coherence or mutuality within 'campaign', let it go gracefully. that is all.
@rooftopaxx
If the community has not already forged and formed itself such that they will self-support, then it's time to let go.
While I don't see masto as particularly harmful, it and the fediverse as it currently stands is not proving to be one of the ways to solve actual problems.
Social _media_ is useless to most people, in much the same way as news _media_.
We need social _discussion_, or social _cooperation_, social _news facts_ ? and social _tools_ to #GetShitDone
At the #NextcloudConference Austrian lawyer and privacy activist @maxschrems gave an inspiring keynote about taking on Big Tech in the courts - and winning. Twice! Listen to the harrowing tale of European courts, politicians playing games and lobbying to sell out European citizens' data. And what comes next! #privacy #lobbying #BigTech
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Nextcloud Conference 2023 keynote speaker: Max Schrems - Nextcloud
We are pleased to announce that privacy activist and lawyer, Max Schrems, will be giving a keynote at this year’s conference! Max Schrems is a pioneer in the European data privacy movement, most well known for his lawsuits on the Safe Harbor agreemen…Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the Go Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/grab…
Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the Go Bundle
Fanatical have another Play on the Go Bundle live, this time a "Premium Edition" with some games they thought deserved that status. All games are Steam Deck Verified too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Prof. @davekarpf gives Marc Andreessen's freshman writing seminar essay thorough feedback:
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?open.substack.com/pub/davekarp…
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)
We've just released Ardour 8.1 with bugfixes and improvements. Connecting to Launchpad Pro has been fixed, the Varispeed dialog now shows percentages, drawing velocity curves now only affects selected notes if there are any. For more info, see here:
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Ardour 8.1 is released
Hot on the heels of 8.0, we are happy to bring you a mostly-hotfixes 8.1 release. There’s a couple of tasty new features also. The full notes for 8.0 and 8.1 are in the usual place, with the new stuff & fixes for 8.1 also listed below.Ardour
A video showing how drawing velocity curves in Ardour 8.1 now only affects the selected notes. Examples show drawing straight lines and freeform lines to apply velocity values to notes.
Watch Live as NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk, Upgrade Space Station
Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Monday, Oct. 30, to complete maintenance activities at the orbital complex.Claire A. O'Shea (NASA)
NASA’s Innovative Rocket Nozzle Paves Way for Deep Space Missions
The Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or RAMFIRE, project focuses on advancing lightweight, additively manufactured aluminum rocket nozzlesBeth Ridgeway (NASA)
Stellaris goes into uncharted territory with the Astral Planes expansion gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/stel…
Stellaris goes into uncharted territory with the Astral Planes expansion
Stellaris Astral Planes is the latest main expansion announced today for Paradox Interactive's popular space strategy game, and this one sound delightfully different to their previous additions and quite exciting.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Turbo Overkill - Steam Deck - An INSANE FPS
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Turbo Overkill - Steam Deck - An INSANE FPS
#TurboOverkill is a seriously nuts FPS for #SteamDeck and it does work nicely, with some caveats noted in the video. Running on #SteamOS 3.5 with Proton 8.0-...YouTube
Vampire Survivors v1.7 is out now with new free content gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/vamp…
#VampireSurvivors #SteamDeck #Linux
Vampire Survivors v1.7 is out now with new free content
The game that spawned a great many clones, Vampire Survivors is back with a brand new free content update for all players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Meet Tracy Hudspeth: Communications Specialist at NASA Office of Small Business Programs
As another inspiring Hispanic Heritage Month concludes, we wanted to take the moment to highlight one of our own, Tracy Hudspeth. Tracy Hudspeth is theGarrett Shea (NASA)
NASA’s Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
Narrow jet stream near equator has winds traveling 320 miles per hourNASA Webb Telescope Team (NASA)
First Artemis Crew Trains for Mission Around Moon
Four astronauts are busy training for Artemis II, the first mission to carry humans on NASA’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft,Rachel H. Kraft (NASA)
"It's important to remember that the 'drugs' aren't just the pills we stash in our medicine cabinets. Ask yourself this: is it really acceptable that we only bothered to test sex differences for general anesthesia in 1999? Turns out women wake up faster than men, regardless of their age, weight or the dosage they've been given."
From Cat Bohannon's highly recommended book Eve.
#Books #SciComm #Bookshelf #bookstodon
the best article i've read so far on the bandcamp SNAFU
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They can and will ruin everything you love
by Miranda Reinert In March of 2022, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games, the folks behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. While the change in ownership raised eyebrows and triggered endless jokes, the site seemed to stay running much the same at first.Luke O'Neil (Welcome to Hell World)
This moves me so much. It is still too little, but it is a seedling we need very much. No more support for permanent occupation and collective punishment. Never again.
Via xsite @jackmjenkins
The Campbell family foundation is finally working opencollective.com/campbell-ar…
Check it out if you like art and politics from the grassroots to the #mainstreaming
Channel 4 News on TikTok
Poet Lemn Sissay explains how the fostered, adopted and orphaned children are central to popular culture - think of Superman, Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker - and yet, society still sees them as “a problem waiting to happen, rather than a solution” …TikTok
Ten years ago, with @cfraisserios, we were dissatisfied with averaging windows in genome scans and decided to calculate FST90 (the 90th percentile of the FST distribution) and FSTmax (the maximum FST of the window) instead. We struggled to convince the reviewers that this was a good idea. We now have a paper we can cite to justify that it's the right approach. Why FST90 in addition to FSTmax? Because in true data FSTmax is full of rotten SNPs. #PopGen
Humble Bundle has a load of simulators ready in this bundle gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/humb…
#Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming
Humble Bundle has a load of simulators ready in this bundle
Enter the simulation! With the Living in a Simulation Humble Bundle, you can live out your wild fantasies of farming, building and more because you love these jobs as a game right?Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Virophages are viruses that infect giant viruses, typically resulting in a lower burst size for the giant virus. In our latest preprint we report virophage-like sequences associated with insect poxviruses.
Their genomes of these elements are really interesting. This also opens up the possibility that hyperparasitic viruses are associated with a much broader range of DNA viruses than is commonly thought.
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#viruses #virology #poxviruses #GiantViruses
Polinton-like Viruses Associated with Entomopoxviruses Provide Insight into Replicon Evolution
Polinton-like viruses (PLVs) are a diverse group of small integrative dsDNA viruses that infect diverse eukaryotic hosts. Many PLVs are hypothesized to parasitize viruses in the phylum Nucleocytoviricota for their own propagation and spread.bioRxiv
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Very cool - would these be the first virophages of an animal virus? Congrats to you and Zach.
Any interest in a bsky invite? I'm splitting time here and there now, there's a decent community over there (and no jack dorsey in sight)
@ariskatzourakis has a nice paper on vertebrate elements academic.oup.com/mbe/article/3…
Phylogenomics of the Maverick Virus-Like Mobile Genetic Elements of Vertebrates
Abstract. Mavericks are virus-like mobile genetic elements found in the genomes of eukaryotes. Although Mavericks encode capsid morphogenesis homologs, their viBarreat, Jose Gabriel Nino (Oxford University Press)
Planetary Annihilation devs reveal Industrial Annihilation, it's like Factorio blended with an RTS gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/plan…
Planetary Annihilation devs reveal Industrial Annihilation
The developers of Planetary Annihilation (well, some of them at least) have announced Industrial Annihilation, a full sequel that blends in factory building with the RTS elements.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Relaxing minimalist building strategy game Tiny Atolls fixed up for Linux gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/rela…
Relaxing minimalist building strategy game Tiny Atolls fixed up for Linux
Tiny Atolls was released at the end of September and while I enjoy it a lot, it did come with a rather broken Linux version, which has now been fixed up.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Sweet Dreams Alex is a wholesome puzzle and construction game gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/swee…
Sweet Dreams Alex is a wholesome puzzle and construction game
Mixing together puzzles and room building, Sweet Dreams Alex is a rather wholesome idea for a game about keeping away nightmares and it's out now with Native Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
If you want to go down that road
I do not really want to, I already read all these "arguments" of DRM proponents far too many times. I already know the next one is « Then electricity is a DRM too, because you can not play your games without it! ».
I find it very disappointing that people who are OK with DRM-gated games distribution (it is a choice, one I respect) feel obligated to say « DRM used for distribution is not DRM! » instead of admitting « I am OK with DRM for distribution, as long as this is the only DRM in use. ».
Hey, I will even give an example: I already bought many games with DRM-gated multiplayer, because I am OK with that as long as I do not plan to ever play multiplayer in these games. Even if I would rather buy a build with multiplayer fully removed, I can make a compromise for these games. See? Not that hard. I did not have to pretend that « DRM does not count when it is only gating access to multiplayer. ».
Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/chil…
Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now
Developer Parabole just released Kona II: Brume, a follow-up to their chilly adventure from 2017 that has you step back into your role as Detective Carl Faubert.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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